All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.

Quote by Samuel Richardson

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There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others...

There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others...

Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated.

Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated.

Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun.

Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun.

The first reading of a Will, where a person dies worth anything considerable, generally affords...

The first reading of a Will, where a person dies worth anything considerable, generally affords...

The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to...

The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to...

The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to...

The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to...

Love before marriage is absolutely necessary.

Love before marriage is absolutely necessary.

Women love to be called cruel, even when they are kindest.

Women love to be called cruel, even when they are kindest.

Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.

Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.

A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.

A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.

Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.

Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.

The life of a good man is a continual warfare with his passions.

The life of a good man is a continual warfare with his passions.

A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play.

A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play.

Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be...

Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be...

Marry first, and love will come after is a shocking assertion; since a thousand things...

Marry first, and love will come after is a shocking assertion; since a thousand things...

Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a...

Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a...

Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons laboring under ill-health.

Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons laboring under ill-health.

There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable...

There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable...

A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly...

A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly...

If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many...

If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many...